Proust was a neuroscientist / Jonah Lehrer.
Proust was a neuroscientist / Jonah Lehrer.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
Date
2007.
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N700.105/9
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English
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p. cm.
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Walt Whitman : The substance of feeling -- George Eliot : The biology of freedom -- Auguste Escoffier : The essence of taste -- Marcel Proust : The method of memory -- Paul Cézanne : The process of sight -- Igor Stravinsky : The source of music -- Gertrude Stein : The structure of language -- Virg...
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007.
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Massachusetts
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2007.
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"More broadly, Lehrer shows that there's a cost to reducing everything to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same as understanding, and this is what art knows better than science. A blend of biography, criticism, and science writing. Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willin...
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Proust was a neuroscientist / Jonah Lehrer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N700.105/9
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74VKz5D2xWJX
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0618620109
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700.105
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